What is the soft woolly hair which covers most parts of the mammal fetus, and in man is shed before or soon after birth called?
lanugo — The soft woolly hair which covers most parts of the mammal fetus, and in man is shed before or soon after birth. (Webster's 1913.)
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- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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